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...enough to justify the term experimental. But the group at Adams was definitely experimenting. For one thing M.C. Tom Wilson constantly changed the makeup of the group. He shuttled in three different pianists and two drummers-on the conventional drum set-and used his three saxophones solo, duet, and trio. It was a changing group, and since many of the men had never played together before, they had no choice but to experiment. Sonny Watson occasionally laid aside his alto saxophone and took up the flute. It was barely audible at times, but his few solos proved that the instrument...
...piano until the other two pianists arrived and did some excellent work with a "blocked chord" style. In All the Things You Are Watson on the alto and Ray Pitts on the tenor sax-the only two with much experience together-engaged in a beautifully fluid duet in the current "counterpoint" style. Lewis on the conga drum and Arnold Palmer on the regular drum outfit both achieved tympanic effects from their instruments in a highly amusing question-and-answer period near the end of Honeysuckle...
...tradition of the acknowledged masterpieces to be familiar and enjoyable ground for the G. & S. lover. In most of their operettas, for instance, there is one piece which hearkens back effectively to the music of England's "Golden Age" of Purcell and Byrd. In Ida, the lovely duet-minuet sung by Melissa and Lady Blanche becomes, not so much from the quality of the singing as from the grace and obvious enjoyment of the singers, one of the high spots of the performance. It should be noted, however, that G. & S. did not achieve here that perfect union of talents...
...melodies may sing a little too much like Verdi's without Verdi's dramatic thrust; its flow may be as slippery as Wagner's without Wagner's soaring sense of continuity. But it has a ravishing choral addio (Act I), a roof-raising farewell duet, and cannily applause-getting arias for all of its principal singers...
...Radio that was noteworthy for the fact that he was without a sponsor for his first time on the air. In Philadelphia, Manager Murray Arnold of radio station WPEN was traitorously watching TV when he heard Singer Gordon MacRae suggest to Soprano Dorothy Kirsten that they do a duet as they used to in the old days of radio. "You remember radio," MacRae gratuitously reminded Kirsten. Outraged, Manager Arnold banned the playing of any MacRae records on his radio station...